Man beats victim with axe, dumps body in well
Published: 21 Aug 12 14:50 CET | Print version
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A 39-year-old man in Ödeshög, in southern Sweden, has been convicted of murder and sentenced to 12 years in prison after hitting his 59-year-old victim in the head with an axe and a frying pan, before dumping the body in a well, causing the older man to drown.
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“I am really surprised with this verdict. I thought it would be manslaughter and ten years,” the 39-year old’s defence lawyer Andres Berglund told daily Expressen.
“I am very disappointed and I expect my client is as well. I will advise him to appeal and then we will just have to see if he has the strength to go through with it.”
The 39-year-old, who is said to have known his victim before the incident, allegedly struck the older man in the head repeatedly with both an axe and a frying pan.
Then he dumped the man’s inert body into a well on the victim’s property, where he subsequently drowned, according to the charge sheet.
According to local paper Corren, witnesses have said that they saw several people near the house earlier in the day and that gun fire was heard coming from the property.
The 39-year-old was brought in for questioning some eight days later. At first he denied all allegations, but later admitted to manslaughter.
However, the court followed the prosecutor’s line of treating the incident as murder and sentenced the man to twelve years in prison.
“I am very pleased that the verdict said murder and not manslaughter, as he wanted. I am pleased that we get closure so that all the neighbours and relatives can know the truth and no longer have to be worried,” said prosecutor Britt-Louise Viklund to Expressen.
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And how can they seriously plead for manslaughter anyway? I think if I repeatedly hit somebody over the head with a frying pan and an axe(!) and then threw their 'inert 'body' into a well, it was probably my intention to kill them...
The man should have been given 30 years, not 12.
Wow!!! Assange will get two days in the corner on a stool ...... "
A padded one, with a remote for the t.v. :)
What a sick sentence.
I guess the neither the victim nor the axe murderer had a name???
Sincere condolences to the victims family and friends, they must be outrages by this miscarriage of justice.
"I am very disappointed and I expect my client is as well. I will advise him to appeal and then we will just have to see if he has the strength to go through with it."
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Really? Suprised and disappointed? Well I suppose you would be. That the judge didnt keel over from laughing so much when you deny murder & call manslaughter on a case like this. Ridiculous
A crime like this wouldnt bring someone to sanity after 100 years of treatment much less 12 years with internet and warm food.
"I guess the neither the victim nor the axe murderer had a name???"
I'm thinking that since we don't have the usual funny-walk brigade making their grunting noises in the comments section today, it was swede-on-swede. Curious as to why the names aren't given out though. Possibly due to elements of alleged paedophilia in the case maybe?
A quick trawl of the usual sites will almost certainly furnish you with answers though.
There is no justice in Europe again I'll say.
Does anyone think of the victims and their families. How can 12 years of comfort in a jail atone for taking a precious life.
That is the only solution for people like this: remove them from society and the gene-pool once and for all.
There is no rehabilitation for murderers and rapists.